“Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you!” (Merchant of Venice, III.v.45)

Show me the money

OK, now that the bailout has been rammed through Congress and is now our responsibility, I would love to see what these “sweeteners” were that were so yummy that they made a crap sandwich palatable.

Joe Biden slipped over $51 million in earmarks into the first bill, and he got caught. If Obama has refrained from any similar earmarking activity, it’ll be a first. McCain-Palin could manage to salvage some mileage from this pork-laden monstrosity after all.